Capturing repeating group matches in regular expressions

[Michael Hudson]

James Collier <james.collier at xtra.co.nz> writes:

> Is it possible to capture the results of repeating group matches in
> the python regular expression module?

Not easily; there's a small dicussion on python-dev at the moment
about this.  Erik Heneryd hacked up something that might be useful:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20040810/a5e602ab/structmatch.py

And there's always the "use a real parser" option :-)

Cheers,
mwh

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